The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn'...t just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

[Film noir] experiences periodic rebirth and rediscovery. Whenever we have any moment of deep societal rift or disruption in Ameri...ca, one of the ways we can express it is through the ideas and behavior in film noir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonish...ingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »